Global Population Aging and Its Economic Consequences - Lee, Ronald D.
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Global population aging is an inevitable feature of the final stages of the demographic transition, a worldwide combination of low fertility and low mortality that result in older, more slowly growing--even shrinking--populations. This trend raises the concurrent risks of rising dependency ratios of the elderly on the working-age population, and falling global saving rates as the growing retired population begins not to save after a lifetime of working. This lecture explains how the purported risks of global aging can be contained through foresight and prudent public policy, and also how these trends will affect the Third World countries.…mehr

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Global population aging is an inevitable feature of the final stages of the demographic transition, a worldwide combination of low fertility and low mortality that result in older, more slowly growing--even shrinking--populations. This trend raises the concurrent risks of rising dependency ratios of the elderly on the working-age population, and falling global saving rates as the growing retired population begins not to save after a lifetime of working. This lecture explains how the purported risks of global aging can be contained through foresight and prudent public policy, and also how these trends will affect the Third World countries.
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Ronald D. Lee is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Family Professor of Economics and professor of demography at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of the Center on Economics and Demography of Aging. Lee is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.